Smart money: Bears potential cap casualties to monitor after 2018

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What’s fascinating about aggressive spending for an NFL team is that it leaves little breathing room after the fact. The nature of the salary cap, which according to the NFL Player’s Association will award roughly $177.2 million to each NFL team in 2018, necessitates that dramatic tinkering doesn’t happen once you’ve designated your hopeful winning core. While every team in the NFL has to spend 95 percent of their salary cap under the collective bargaining agreement over a four-year period, that’s only the floor. Some, like the early Reggie McKenzie Raiders of 2014-2016 were paying that requirement out with short deals that had limited commitments as they acquired core players like Khalil Mack and Derek Carr.

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